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February 5, 1937 Paul Dudzinski is born in Warsaw, Poland
September 1939, Germany invades Poland and occupies it within a month
Paul's father who is in France buying engine parts must remain there and the family is forced to flee from Poland. Through this, Paul's parents came to see the value of education and how instrumental it would be in other countries. Paul's perspective on the value of education was significantly shaped by this.
1939 marks 20 years of freedom for Poland
Poland has been in a Golden Age of sorts. Paul's father is an engineer and serves in the air force. Paul's mother is a lawyer. This is the state of Poland that Paul hears of when he visits later.
May 1940, Germans invade France
Paul's father is forced to move to England with the Polish air force. His family will be separated for months.
1933, Paul's father's friend, Skarzyinski, flies a single engine plane across the Atlantic from Senegal to Brazil and marries a Jewish woman.
Goering, a German Aviation officer, is impressed with the feat, but knows the imminent danger for the Jewish woman, so grants her safe passage to Rome in 1940. Paul's family is able to go with her.
March 1940, Paul's family leaves Poland for Rome on a train by the mother impersonating the maid of the Jewish lady. From Rome they reach Bordeaux France and take a ferry to Plymouth, England where they finally meet Paul's father.
1944, USSR occupies Poland
Paul's family cannot return to Poland where they left virtually all of their possessions.
1948, England is saturated with refugees and offers help with emigration
June 1948, Paul's family moves to Argentina where Paul is immersed in Argentine culture and becomes fluent in Spanish. The dictatorship of Juan Peron barred Paul's mother from practicing law because of the difference in laws and the governmental instability prompted Paul's family to reapply for emigration.
1958, aftermath of military junta removing Peron from power
This is unsettling for Paul who is finishing medical school after his brother and parents move to Canada and the US respectively. Paul realizes the instability and volatility of dictatorship.
November 8, 1960 John F. Kennedy is elected
Paul immigrates to the US in 1961 after finishing medical school and lives with his parents, feeling comfortable and realizing the value of a stable and balanced presidency. In this system he is able to get an internship at Westmoreland Hospital PA.
1963, aftermath of Korean War
Paul is drafted to go north of Seoul, South Korea as a medical officer. Here, he further understands the way war displaces people.
March 8, 1965, US enters Vietnam War
Paul decides against US residency through the army for surgery. Instead, he does residency through civilian surgery.
June 1989, Lech Walesa leads the Solidarity trade-union to oppose the USSR and hold a democratic election in Poland.
This resulted in countries banding together against the USSR. Finally, Gorbachev grants Poland independence, freeing Paul's family from the communist regime and allowing Paul to visit more safely.
1998, aftermath of Vietnam War
The Vietnam War prompts Paul to serve in Vietnam in 1998 as a volunteer teacher for medical aid and surgery. He continues to realize the value of his education and volunteers later in 2003 in Poland and in 2008 in Bolivia.
2003 US Invasion of Iraq
Drawing on the experience of the invasion of his own country, Paul is against such abrupt aggression in Iraq which could displace many people. He questions how well an invasion and war will solve the present problems.